“ Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully c… Jill Stauffer
“ The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores. A.E. Samaan
“ Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from ... It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as not to have to see t… Natascha Kampusch
“ People do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection Natascha Kampusch
“ Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith. Manel Loureiro
“ As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habitual behaviors seen in nature. But as beings who know they will die we digress into episodes and epi… Thomas Ligotti
“ When traumatic events are of human design, those who bear witness are caught in the conflict between victim and perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to th… Judith Lewis Herman
“ Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after. S. Kelley Harrell
“ In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions. Laurie Matthew
“ Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, worker… Laurie Matthew
“ Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life Lynette Gould
“ Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room is a privileged space dedicated to memory. Within that… Judith Lewis Herman
“ Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared’... Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with c… Laura Davis
“ The healing process is best described as a spiral. Survivors go through the stages once, sometimes many times; sometimes in one order, sometimes in another. Each time they hit a stage again, they move… Laura Hough
“ All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about u… Heyward Bruce Ewart III
“ Sometimes we self-sabotage just when things seem to be going smoothly. Perhaps this is a way to express our fear about whether it is okay for us to have a better life. We are bound to feel anxious as… Maureen Brady
“ Even if our survival skills have become impediments we would like to let go of because they have ceased to serve us, we can still love ourselves with them. In appreciation of our survival, we can be a… Maureen Brady
“ We each have our own ways of sabotaging & keeping ourselves down…Do we need to remain the victim so strongly that we pull the ceiling down upon our own heads? There is a comfort in the familiar. Also,… Maureen Brady
“ Often feelings of shame, powerlessness, and self-hate are bottled up with the memories, and as the memories come through, these feelings do, too.Yet healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning… Laura Davis
“ The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches… Beatrix Campbell
